kälkborgerlig

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Swedish

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Etymology

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kälkborgare +‎ -lig, probably from the unattested *Kälkestadsborgare (inhabitant of Kälkestad), with Kälkestad being an imaginary town (akin to English Palookaville).

Adjective

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kälkborgerlig (comparative mer kälkborgerlig, superlative mest kälkborgerlig)

  1. philistine, bourgeois
    Synonyms: småborgerlig, spetsborgerlig

Declension

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Inflection of kälkborgerlig
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular kälkborgerlig mer kälkborgerlig mest kälkborgerlig
Neuter singular kälkborgerligt mer kälkborgerligt mest kälkborgerligt
Plural kälkborgerliga mer kälkborgerliga mest kälkborgerliga
Masculine plural3 kälkborgerlige mer kälkborgerliga mest kälkborgerliga
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 kälkborgerlige mer kälkborgerlige mest kälkborgerlige
All kälkborgerliga mer kälkborgerliga mest kälkborgerliga
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
3) Dated or archaic
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References

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